St. Pete Times endorses Socialism
Chris Ingram’s letter to the editor of the St. Pete Times (as submitted)
Dear Editor:
I am generally a defender of the St. Pete Times to my fellow conservatives as I believe the paper’s news reporting to be the best in the state. However, my conservative friends can’t get past the fact that your paper is a liberal propaganda rag and your editorial on Thursday (Final option: Send health bill to House) proves it.
While I saw flaws in the paper’s entire argument for passage of Obamacare, the most disconcerting was your notion that the “dramatic advances the Senate bill offers” include the “setting of limits on how much money insurers can keep for marketing, other business expenses, and profits.”
This my friends is socialism (defined as public or direct worker ownership and/or administration of the means of production and allocation of resources) plain and simple.
Great idea! Why don’t we start this practice with a test-run among newspapers? We’ll let the government decide how much money you can spend for marketing, charge for classified ads, inserts, business expenses, executive compensation, paper-boy pay, and overall profits. Okay, well, all but the latter – we all know newspapers have driven themselves to the point of irrelevance and don’t have any profits to regulate.
Chris Ingram
Chris Ingram is the president and founder of 411 Communications a corporate and political communications firm, and publisher of www.IrreverentView.com. Ingram is a frequent pundit on Fox News and CNN, and has written opinion columns for the Washington Times, UPI, Front Page Florida, and National Review online. E-mail him at: Chris@411Communications.com.
January 21st, 2010 at 4:22 pm
Ingram, if it took you this long to figure out what a biased piece of garbage the SPT is, you’ve had your head in the sand. What are you an ostrich?
January 21st, 2010 at 5:34 pm
SPT has long been known as Pravda West.
January 21st, 2010 at 6:21 pm
Chris…come on. The Times? I keep telling myself you’re smart. Maybe Howard was right.
January 21st, 2010 at 6:34 pm
Funny one Chris. And I like the times too.
January 21st, 2010 at 6:53 pm
Have to agree with the other comments Chris. I suppose now you’ll just have to give in and agree with Bill O’Reilly! Did you know one of our ‘elitist’ citizens in St. Petersburg is a good friend of Putin?
Stan
January 21st, 2010 at 7:00 pm
I saw this in my junk email folder and wondered what it was….now I know why it was there…..you are such an ignorant ass hole!
January 21st, 2010 at 7:19 pm
Reply to Max:
Ah, yes I am I guess. And if I am what you profess me to be, what does that make you? The one with the strong vocabulary and natural-born ability to make such compelling arguments for what he believes? Why, I think that must make you a primate!
Cheers my intellectual buddy!
January 21st, 2010 at 7:25 pm
Chris, your brain and pen are on fire. Thanks for sending the letter. Susan
January 21st, 2010 at 11:32 pm
Great, perhaps now you will notice how biased the New York Times is too. Just keep working your way on up…
January 22nd, 2010 at 8:38 am
I also pulled you out of Junk, thank you for taking the time to express yourself, seems that one of our rights.
January 22nd, 2010 at 10:00 am
Pravda West! I love it!!!!